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I don't know if anyone else here has ever spent any time with Destiny, but I just want to say a few words about it in the aftermath of The Final Shape dropping.
I've had an off-and-on relationship with Destiny ever since the game was announced all those years and years ago. I've spent about 400 hours on Destiny 2 and I honestly have no idea how much on the first entry.
They've done some things that have really pissed me off: namely, "content vaulting" where they remove parts of the game supposedly because the spaghetti mess of code is a massive house of cards that can tumble at any time. That drove me away from the game for a bit.
But the newest "expansion" was aimed to be the culmination of a decade of storytelling, so obviously I had to jump back in for the grand finale.
Somehow...they nailed it. I haven't felt like this about a multi-player game expansion since World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. The campaign was the best they've put out over all these years. I was concerned that, not being a Raider, I'd miss out on being part of killing the big bad, the Witness, but I stayed up all night watching several teams attempt to be the first to clear the raid and finish him off.
Finally, after the longest period of time it's taken to clear a raid for the first time (19 hours), the task was completed...but what that accomplished was unlocking the REAL final mission for everyone else to experience and feel as though they were part of a true community of players finishing this massive story.
I'll likely pop back in here to say more (whether or not anyone is interested
) but this game has meant a lot to me over the years, and I'm curious if anyone else can say the same.
I've had an off-and-on relationship with Destiny ever since the game was announced all those years and years ago. I've spent about 400 hours on Destiny 2 and I honestly have no idea how much on the first entry.
They've done some things that have really pissed me off: namely, "content vaulting" where they remove parts of the game supposedly because the spaghetti mess of code is a massive house of cards that can tumble at any time. That drove me away from the game for a bit.
But the newest "expansion" was aimed to be the culmination of a decade of storytelling, so obviously I had to jump back in for the grand finale.
Somehow...they nailed it. I haven't felt like this about a multi-player game expansion since World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. The campaign was the best they've put out over all these years. I was concerned that, not being a Raider, I'd miss out on being part of killing the big bad, the Witness, but I stayed up all night watching several teams attempt to be the first to clear the raid and finish him off.
Finally, after the longest period of time it's taken to clear a raid for the first time (19 hours), the task was completed...but what that accomplished was unlocking the REAL final mission for everyone else to experience and feel as though they were part of a true community of players finishing this massive story.
I'll likely pop back in here to say more (whether or not anyone is interested
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